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Wendy vs Wenonah

American parents have registered 263,276 Wendys since 1880, against 506 Wenonahs. Wendy is still ahead, with 165 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Wendy against Wenonah, 1880 to 2025 0 3k 6k 9k 12k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Wendy Wenonah

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 118 years in which either name was published, Wendy for 97 years and Wenonah for 21 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Wendy Wenonah
Total US births 263,276506
Most in one year 11,25926
Babies in 2025 165under 5
Estimated living today 236,000170
Median age today 5655
Peak year 19671916
Best rank 32nd girls1,445th girls
Rank in 2025 1,341stunranked
First recorded 19181903
Girls / boys 262,325 / 951506 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Wendy and Wenonah.